Facility Dogs

A facility dog is trained to work at a designated location with a variety of people. Typically, this type of dog is placed in a hospital or with a community service provider. Like our other dogs, Facility Dogs are task-trained, but the tasks they perform are done for someone other than their handler. Those tasks may include:

• Modeling hospital procedures for a child
• Motivating hospital patients for physical activity
• De-escalating emotions to allow productive communication
• Lying across or near a person to provide deep pressure therapy or a sense of pressure
• Providing comfort in stressful situations
• Serving as a communication tool at public demonstrations

Read about one of our recent Facility Dog teams.